Compositions of Power

Either of these recently deceased directors could furnish a more comprehensive retrospective with their bodies of work. But that's not the point of this dual posthumous salute, a short, sweet farewell to Claude Chabrol and Arthur Penn, whose deaths fell a mere 16 days apart in September. The Frenchman, who was 80, and the American, 88, also were connected by the French new wave of the late 1950s. The...